Content: Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
About the author
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION: WHAT IS MANAGED CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT?
Background
What is managed CPD?
How does managed CPD fit into professional and regulatory environments?
Managed CPD, clinical governance and regulation
The effectiveness of continuing professional development
Effectiveness and the individual doctor
IMPLEMENTING MANAGED CPD
STEP ONE: IDENTIFY WHAT TO LEARN
How can learning needs be identified?
Should all CPD be based on specific learning needs? How do doctors identify their learning needs?Needs assessment based on the clinician's own experiences in direct patient care
Interactions within the clinical team and department
Needs assessment based on the clinician's non-clinical activities
Formal approaches to quality management and risk assessment
Specific activities directed at needs assessment
Peer review
STEP TWO: PLAN HOW TO LEARN --
DOCUMENTATION
STEP THREE: LEARN
Learning in a profession
Right and wrong assumptions about doctors' learning
Professional learning methods
Academic activities
Meetings. Learning from colleaguesLearning from practice
Technology-based learning and media
Management and quality processes
Specially arranged events
STEP FOUR: USE THE LEARNING AND SHOW ITS EFFECT
Reinforcing learning
Disseminating the CPD locally
Measuring the effectiveness of CPD: The challenges
Who benefits from CPD?
Types of change resulting from CPD: How can they be appreciated?
Showing the effectiveness of CPD
Methods of using CPD and showing its effects
The methods
APPENDICES
Appendix 1: Overview of the literature
Appendix 2: Appraisal record form template. Appendix 3: Methods of needs assessmentAppendix 4: A study leave application form
Appendix 5: Methods of professional learning
Appendix 6: Methods of using the learning and showing its effects
Appendix 7: A personal development plan
References
Index.